Laura Ward

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Co-founder & COO, Delta Robotics - fundraising · healthcare · go-to-market

Delta Robotics
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
6+ years experience
Saïd Business School
English
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Delta Robotics (vertical SaaS for clinics). 6 years of building before that. Raised $20 million across 2 rounds. Signed 400 paying customers, 15 of them enterprises. Before that: Bloomberg and HSBC. Most at home with healthcare and fundraising. Board member at a local non-profit.

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Skills
healthcarehiringfundraisinggo-to-market
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - farm-input financing for agencies, 6 enterprise pilots

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$2M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$361k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
6 enterprise pilots after 27 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

6 enterprise pilots after 27 months. Looking for investors who know insurance and can help with expansion into Southeast Asia.

London, UKhealthcarego-to-markethiring
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Delta Robotics · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Took Delta Robotics from zero to $6 million ARR.
    • Grew the team to 113 people across 2 countries.
    • Raised $32 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2025
    Bloomberg · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 84% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
    HSBC · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 14 a week to 1.

Projects

Open-source go-to-market toolkit
2025

A small library for vertical SaaS for clinics that 741 developers star on GitHub.

Vertical SaaS for clinics benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing fundraising and hiring on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Saïd Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. Queen's University Belfast
    BSc, Engineering
    2017 - 2020

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